Albert Hofmann, inventor of LSD, dies.

Albert Hofmann, who died on Tuesday aged 102, synthesised lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) in 1938 and became the first person in the world to experience a full-blown acid trip. RIP Hofmann.

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Miranda Rights Confusion

I was watching one of those cop shows on courtTV, and I heard an officer claim that he was not obligated to read the suspect's "miranda rights". Turns out he was correct.

109,263 Errors found in Texas math textbooks

One second-grade math book, for example, has 4 plus 7 equaling 10, the San Antonio Express-News reported Friday. SMRT.

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Operations with 0 and 1:

1. 1D.

2. 2D.

Idempotent laws:

3.

Involution law:

4.

Laws of complementarity:

5. 5D.

Commutative laws:

6. 6D.

Associative laws:

7. 7D.

Distributive laws:

8. 8D.

Simplification theorems:

9. 9D.

10. 10D.

11. 11D.

DeMorgan's Laws:

12. 12D.

Duality:

13. 13D.

Theorem for multiplying out and factoring:

14. 14D.

Consensus theorem:

15. 15D.

Sabotaging the U.S. Constitution | Newspaper Tree El Paso

In the wake of the hype surrounding the appearance of Gen. Patraeus before Congressional Committees this week, it was absolutely embarrassing to watch our Commander in Chief literally hand off the complete conduct of the Iraqi war to a four star general.

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Dick Cheney '94: Invading Baghdad Would Create Quagmire

FYI a quagmire is a political term used to describe a foreign military campaign in which there is either no foreseeable possibility of victory or the objectives are not clearly defined, and at the same time no clear exit strategy has been formulated in the absence of victory. The military campaign is likened to a kind of swamp or marsh in which the warring nation is unable to remove itself.

Underground lake may bring Darfur peace

Finally some good news: A newly found imprint of a vast, ancient underground lake in Sudan's Darfur could restore peace to the region by providing a potential water source to an area ravaged by drought, a U.S. geologist says.

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